I've seen many, many bad Ranger efforts over the many years of following this team....from the 5 minute mark of the first period on, this is up there with the worst all around games I've ever seen....there is not one area of the game that is remotely acceptable.

- the top two lines are good, even dominant at times, but they overpass instead of shooting;

- Rangers make a second-rate goalie look like Bernie Parent;

- the fourth line is not gritty or big enough and gets pushed around by their opposite fourth line, AV will never change this stupid idea; and what the **** is Vesey doing on the fourth line while ****ing Fast is on the third;

- the defense gives up too much in the prime scoring areas, doesn't hit enough in their own zone;

- McDonagh is awesome, Holden-Staal is a disaster;

- Rangers got hacked, smacked and cross checked on home ice and did nothing to respond; except for Frodo, who slugged a guy and lost a power play as a result; gotta love AV hockey, Michel Bergeron should slap AV in the face on behalf of French Canadian coaches;

- Rangers won 3 out of 4 without Jesper "The Fist" Fast, it was nice while it lasted;

- here's to three more years of Fancy Dandy AV hockey ........ beat the bad and mediocre teams, lose most of the games against the true contenders, no physical balance in the lineup; heck, lets give AV a five year extension and doom the franchise to be pretenders for nearly a decade.

These breaks in the schedule are the worst. Just out of sync. Looks and feels like a preseason game

Didn't look like Columbus played a preseason game...

I don't think Columbus played incredible hockey, either. They scored goals, but I never felt like they were skating circles around The Rangers, or causing turnovers, or making one touch passes. They got a few clear shots at the net. Some stoppable pucks found the back of the net. And that ref prevented Zuccarello from going in on a breakaway haha

They certainly did not.....Sometimes I think things look worse when you're actually at the game...because from where I was sitting, the Rangers looked downright pitiful...and I'm being kind compared to some of the opinions of the fans around me.

They did NOT dominate the first period....they opened well and had a few good shifts in the offensive end afterwards. By time the period was half over, Jackets were beating them to loose pucks all over the ice. That first goal was definitely a WTF moment and took the wind completely out of their sails. But noway were they dominant.